futurist

1. 1.

   a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future

   Broadertheologian
2. 2.

   someone who predicts the future

   Synonymsfantast

   Broadervisionary

1. 1.

   of or relating to futurism

   “futurist art”

   Synonymsfuturistic

Other forms of futurist

plural

futurists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about futurist

What does futurist mean?

futurist means "a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in futurist?

futurist has 3 syllables: fu-tu-rist. The stress falls on "fu". In IPA it is /ˈfjutʃɚɪst/.

What is another word for futurist?

Close synonyms include fantast, futuristic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is futurist a common word?

futurist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.